Monument record MDO3134 - Bowl barrow in the Bronkham Hill group, Winterborne St Martin

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow. Recorded by field investigators as an extant oval mound. Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs.

Site of a possible Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of a larger linear barrow cemetery extending along the Dorset Ridgeway.

Possible oval bowl barrow, 50 ft. (North-South) by 36 ft. Height 2 ft. Flat-topped. {1-2}.

Later field investigations record a mound at this location, diameter approximately 18.0m., height 0.1m. to 1.1m. {3}.

Also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs {4-6}, seen as a large circular mound with an outer ditch, measuring approximately 32.6 metres in overall diameter. This site was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 452318 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 466 (Monograph). SDO150.

<3> Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F2 JWS (Unpublished document). SDO11902.

<4> Royal Air Force, 22-1-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 3295-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11932.

<5> 14-4-1957, CUCAP (UM64) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11944.

<6> 11-6-1978, NMR OS/78080 100-101 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11952.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 270 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 10.0m, ht. 0.5m. Grass, heather and moss covered. Two elongated hollows on top indicate the severe disturbance of the mound. 1/5/D

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

Record last edited

Mar 18 2024 1:42PM